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A Rising Tide: In conversation with President Kim Brooks about ÿÈÕ´óÈü’s new strategic framework
ÿÈÕ´óÈü President Kim Brooks discusses the new strategic framework, how it was shaped by community voices, and what it asks of the university and its community. Read more.
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Award‑winning student essay asks what fractures community — and why showing up can help build it
Tuesday, May 5, 2026
Mia Mackenzie, a Master of Social Work student, earned top honours in Dal’s Glovin Award for an essay urging people to resist division by showing up and staying accountable to community.
Thursday, April 30, 2026
ÿÈÕ´óÈü researchers are advancing health, clean energy, ocean science, and food innovation with new partner‑driven funding aimed at turning Nova Scotia research strengths into real‑world solutions.
Tuesday, March 17, 2026
A two‑year deep‑energy retrofit has modernized the Killam Memorial Library’s aging systems, boosting efficiency, reducing emissions, and setting the stage for similar upgrades across campus.
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Thursday, February 4, 2016
The story behind Dal's February holiday, including a look at Munro Days past and the man whose generosity saved the university from closure in the late 1870s.
Monday, February 1, 2016
Surgeons, physicians and scientists at ÿÈÕ´óÈü Medical School are striving to better understand, treat and cure HPV-related throat and mouth cancers, rates of which have more than quadrupled in the past decade.
Thursday, January 28, 2016
President Emeritus Tom Traves's official portrait was unveiled earlier this month and now hangs alongside those of his nine predecessors in the Macdonald Building’s University Hall.
Friday, January 22, 2016
Norma Williams, Dal's first executive director of diversity and inclusiveness, brings more than three decades of anti-racism, diversity and equity work to her new role.
Wednesday, January 20, 2016
Students from the Rowe School of Business took home the Academic Cup at the prestigious JDCC, the largest undergraduate business case competition in Central/Eastern Canada.